ABOUT US
Our foundry opened its gates in 1930, when my grandfather Antal Mihaly opened the first private iron foundry in Vojvodina and in the surrounding region. During the decades the foundry operated in the same place. From the sixties my father Antal Mihaly took over, and introduced steel casting and the lost-wax method for casting sculptures. Currently the foundry is active under the ownership of the grandson of the founder Antal Mihaly.

The products of the foundry constantly expanded, from the original agricultural and industrual machineparts to casting non-ferrous metals such as brass, bronze, copper and aluminium to precision steel casting. We experienced numerous technological and methodological changes during the last 80 years, always overcoming challenges. Now, beside casting, we have an in-house CNC based pattern making workshop, can do chemical and mechanical analysis, and also offer complete machining of the part, delivering a ready for use product to the customer.
SERVICES
CAST IRON AND STEEL
The main profile of our foundry is iron metallurgy. We use induction furnaces to melt ductile (nodular), gray (lamellar) cast iron, low- and high alloyed steel, and special wear resistant (GX-300 and Hadfield) alloys. This melting technology offers precise alloy composition, controllable casting temperature, thus delivering a product which comforms to the technical requirements. Our daily capacity is 500 kg, which is ideal for small and medium series, prototypes which's moulds are either hand made, or come off the automated forming machines. We also offer various heat treatments for our castings.

Cast iron bollards Cast iron reaction chamber

CNC MACHINING
If needed, we can machine our parts. In our own toolshop we have two universal lathes, plane grinder, shaper and drilling machines, and for machining batch works the following CNC machines are at our disposal:

HERMLE UWF 900 mill
SCHAUBLIN 44 machining center
SCHAUBLIN 130 lathe
MAHO MH 1000 mill
KERN D23 lathe


SCULPTURES AND BELLS
Artistic pieces - whether portrait busts, full body figures, tablets, fountains, plaquetes or small sculptures - are made with the lost-wax technique. This ensures the flawless surface quality and the rich details. Our sculptures made their way around the globe during the decades, be that to public places, galleries or private owners, from the palm sized to those which where 10 meters in size.



NON-FERROUS METALS
We can melt 300 kg of bronze, brass, copper or aluminium in two gas burning furnaces. From these metals we usually cast bearing houses, rods, motor covers or simply blocks which we later use for pattern making.



QUALITY CONTROL
In order to comform to international standards, our castigs need to undergo chemical and mechanical analysis. We use a SPECTRO optical emission spetrometer to determine the precise chemical composition of our alloys. In the case of cast irons we use an optical microscope to examine the phase structure, the same microscope is used to see whether the heat treatment was successful in the case of steel castings. Often we need to test the hardness of our castings, for this we have a Brinnel - Rockwell hardness tester.





PATTERN AND TOOLMAKING
The first step of casting an agricultural or industrual part is making the foundry pattern for it from wood, aluminium or various resins and plastics. We have a high precision digital 3D measuring arm at our disposal, so having no technical drawing for a sought after part is no longer a problem. We simply reverse engineer it with the arm, and thus obtain the CAD model. Using this model we manufacture the pattern on one of our 3 CNC milling machines from any of the materials listed above. The biggest patterns we can produce is 1500 x 1500 x 1500 mm, or Ø1500 mm. Our patterns are made in accordance with the EN 12890:2000 standard.





SHOTBLASTING
We have a high powered shotblasting machine and numerous grinders for cleaning castings, bringing their surface quality to the desired state.




CASTING SIMULATION
The elimination of experimation with castings is crucial in obtaining a higher level of productivity. Thus in critical parts we use casting simulation prior the pattern making to calculate the minimal riser sizes, and find hidden porosities which would effect the service life of the part.

WORKS
CONTACT

Address:
SZR ANTAL LIVNICA
Segedinski put 36/a
24000 Subotica
SERBIA

E-mail / Phone + Fax:
livnica@antal.rs
+381 (0)24 546678